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The ;ii;^nr.;iii' amount ot t\w\ ronsuinal on the ahove seven 

 days and nights was H cwt. Si stone, 4 ll)s. This, however, cannot 

 be eonsiderinl as t!»e maximum quantity, for aUhough the ther- 

 mometer out of doors was so h)W as '24" at ni^ht, yet the days 

 were generally elear and the house was mucli heated by the sun. 

 In niilil weatlier about one busliel of coals was suflicient to keep 

 the house at ()5" for '24 hours. 



iMarch '2, 18-11. 



ORDINARY MEETING. 



ITie following was elected a Fellow of the Society ; 



Charles B. Warner, Esq., 9, Crescent, Jewin Street, Cripple- 

 gate, and Hoddesden, Ilerts. 



The following were the principal subjects of exhibition j 



From George Loddiges, Esq., V. P., F. U.S., Specimens of 

 Boronia led'ifolia, and Mirbelia fioribunda, two new and very orna- 

 mental Greenhouse plants from New Holland, (Large Silver 

 Medal awarded.) 



FVom Mr. Lumsden, Gardener to Henry Bevan, Esq., F.H.S., 

 a Collection of Camellias. 



F>om Mrs. Lawrence, F.H.S., of Ealing Park, plants of 

 Epacris impressa, Erica carinata, and Oncidium altissimum, (the 

 Silver Knigiitian Medal awarded.) 



From Mrs. William Harwood, Hill Ridware, near P.ugeley, 

 Staffordshire, two very handsome Lemons ; the stem of the tree 

 which bore them, although only one inch in diameter, was said 

 to have borne upwards of twenty fruits ; nearly as large as the 

 two exhibited. 



From Mrs. George Dowdeswell, 45, Wimpole Street, fruits of 

 Physalis edulis, the Cape Gooseberry, raised in the open air 

 against a south- west- wall in her garden in Worcestershire. 

 The Indian name of this fruit is " Tessaree," it is much esteemed 

 in that country, and is made into tarts and preserves. Raised 

 without difficulty in this country. 



From Messrs. Veitch and Son, of Exeter, a plant of Leche- 

 nauliia biloba, a Swan River Shrub of much beauty, with blue 

 flowers, now first exhibited, (the Large Silver Medal awarded.) 



From Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, Bart., F.H.S., fruit of the 

 Cornish Gilliflower apples. 



From Mr. Edmonds, Gardener to His Grace the Duke of De- 



